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Having plumbed the archives for information about the nineteenth-century dancing sensation known as Juba, Myers pieces together a fictionalized account of his extraordinary life in this posthumous novel.

Although I try to coordinate these readers’-advisory columns with the Booklist issue spotlight, I have more trouble with some than others. Business is a case in point, and it’s personal. I confess that, except for some marketing and customer-services aspects, I’ve never found the world of business all that intriguing. In my July 2013 column, I wrote about RA for business readers and focused on our nonfiction collections.

Where would middle-grade fiction be without Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series? Its honest approach to the trials and tribulations of an average kid struck a chord with readers, and its humor and liberally doodled pages completed the formula for a megahit. But what do you give to the kid who has read all the Wimpy Kids?

One of the “givens” in contemporary American society is the outrageous cost of a college education, and a “corollary given” is the debilitating debt that college students accumulate by the time they graduate. If parents or scholarships don’t help chip away at that mountain of owed money, then the student alone may be paying off the debt well into their twenties or even thirties.

Business and economics touch all our lives in some fashion or other, and the following 10 books, reviewed in Booklist between July 2014 and June 2015, discuss in superior fashion many of the contact points between our personal lives and economic theory and practice.

There’s plenty to celebrate during “June Is Audiobook Month,” promoted by theAudio Publishers Association to increase awareness and enthusiasm for the format and its fans. The Association of American Publishers’ January 2015 data shows sales of physical audio up 16.3 percent and a whopping increase of 36.7 percent in downloadable audio sales, better than any other publishing format.